I'm not arguing to exclude animal agriculture from laws about animal abuse. Here's what I'm saying:

• Making the law very strict in a way that would make animal agriculture impossible, or its products too expensive, would be politically impossible. People would oppose such changes.
• But if you make a special case where cruelty just for the sake of cruelty, for entertainment, would be severly punished, I think that would be very much acceptable. I don't imagine that people would oppose that. And that's a win we can take.
• The bar for "animal abuse" remains unfortunately low for most industries, but we take every win we can get.
• That doesn't prevent us from continuing to educate people about the realties of human agriculture, and to make people think about their impact on sentient beings' wellbeing and suffering.

And I don't consume animal products.

animals aren't tortured to death in slaughterhouses. they are killed in compliance with humane slaughter laws.